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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Wed Apr 1, 2015, 05:51 PM Apr 2015

Yuck in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil... [View all]

This aerial view shows polluted water flowing from the Barra channel to the Barra beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 23, 2015. Rio de Janeiro’s mayor acknowledged in a television interview Monday that the run-up to the 2016 games has proven a “wasted opportunity” to clean up the city’s blighted waterways.

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Yuck in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil... [View all] Playinghardball Apr 2015 OP

If only there was a fearless, intrepid investigative journalist in Rio Blue_Tires Apr 2015 #1

Now, stop that at once... MineralMan Apr 2015 #2

You should see Guanabara Bay... Ace Rothstein Apr 2015 #3